Men In Suit Wooing For Some Coins

I was comfortably sitting at the cozy Alt Neuendorf tavern in Koblenz, the spot of the largest wine industry in Germany, enjoying some finely-cooked meat with asparagus sidings and a glass of red wine, when a man in neat black clothing and a funny hat approached me, recited a poem asking for some money. Since I was in a distant land, I obviously did not know what to do, how to react or what to surmise so I just handed the man a few bucks after which he smiled at me and left. It was when I came back to my hotel room lodging where some of my friends were waiting that I found out what or who have just talked to me.

The man in black turned out to be a craftsman (either a carpenter, plumber or mason) on a pilgrimage called Walz, which is a provision before an apprentice becomes a master. He, together with other craftsmen had to turn locations for three long years and a day without coming home unless there's an emergency and find themselves temporary labor. You might be shocked to know that this is a Middle-Aged practice still around; only now the craftsmen have the discretion of doing it or not since more ways of perfecting a specific skill has already been developed.